Cambodia Visa Cost for Families and Children: A US Parent's Guide

The family-of-four math, worked out

Let us put real numbers on the most common US family shape: two parents and two children, all on Tourist eVisas, all arriving by air. This is the worked example that answers the question most parents are actually asking when they search for the family cost.

Start with the visas. Four travelers at $80 USD each is $320 USD for the eVisas. Then add the e-Arrival Card, which every air arrival files separately at $5 USD per traveler: four cards at $5 each is $20 USD. Add those together and a family of four is $340 USD all-in to be fully cleared into Cambodia — visa plus arrival declaration, with nothing else owed at the border.

The pattern is obvious once it is laid out: every traveler adds $85 to the all-in total on a Tourist eVisa — $80 for the visa and $5 for the e-Arrival Card. That single per-head figure is all the arithmetic you need to size any family. Six people is six times $85, or $510 USD. There is no point hunting for a bulk rate, because none exists; the linear scaling is the whole story.

The reason every child is full price is structural: Cambodia issues one eVisa per passport, and the system reads each traveler as an individual record. There is no family or group eVisa to discount in the first place. If you want to see how the per-traveler rule plays out at the application stage — including the single-session workflow that lets you do the whole family at once — our guide on how US families apply for children walks through the mechanics.

The e-Arrival Card adds $5 per child on top

The visa is only part of the family entry cost. Every air arrival into Cambodia — including every child — files a separate e-Arrival Card, the arrival declaration the country requires before you land. Like the visa, there is no family card and no child exemption: a family of four files four e-Arrival Cards, each at $5 USD per traveler, verified through us. That is the $20 line in the family-of-four math above.

The e-Arrival Card is genuinely separate from the visa. It has its own 14 fields per traveler, captures the bigger arrival picture the visa skips — flight details, where the family is staying, the customs and health declaration — and it has a strict timing window: it must be submitted within 7 days before your flight. You cannot file it months ahead with the visa, so it is a second, later task in the family budget timeline rather than a same-day add-on.

Each child's e-Arrival Card has to match that child's eVisa and passport exactly — same name, same passport number, same date of birth — or the family can get held up at the kiosk. Because the cost is a flat $5 per traveler with no discount, the e-Arrival math is the same simple multiplication as the visa: travelers times five. When your flights are booked and your approved eVisas are in hand, you can get the whole family's e-Arrival Cards sorted in one pass.

The family costs US parents wrongly expect to pay

A lot of the anxiety around family visa budgeting comes from costs people assume are coming but that Cambodia never charges. Clearing these off the list keeps your budget honest and stops you from padding it with phantom fees. For a family on eVisas, the all-in per-traveler figure is the whole visa-and-arrival cost — nothing below is added.

• No rush, weekend, or same-day surcharge. There is one flat price per traveler and one 3-business-day timeline. You cannot pay more to go faster, and you are never charged extra for applying close to your travel date.
• No per-child paperwork fee. A child's application costs the same flat $80 as an adult's — there is no separate "minor processing" charge layered on top of the visa fee.
• No proof-of-funds or per-person bank requirement. Cambodia does not ask the family to show a minimum balance, payslips, or savings for the eVisa, so there is no financial threshold to budget around.
• No return-flight or onward-ticket cost tied to the visa. The eVisa application does not require proof of departure, so you are not forced to book and pay for flights before you can apply.
• No hotel-booking fee for the application. The form asks for an intended address, but a hotel name and city is enough — you are not made to prepay nights to satisfy the visa.
• No mandatory travel-insurance purchase. Insurance is sensible for any family heading abroad, but Cambodia does not require it for the eVisa, so it is your choice, not a forced line item.

The all-in per-traveler price is also not a stripped-down permit. For each $80 Tourist eVisa your family gets the approved visa delivered as a printable PDF by email, a 3-business-day turnaround, free resubmission if Immigration flags a photo or passport correction, and US-timezone support if anything goes sideways before you fly. To see how these costs fit into the wider trip budget — flights, accommodation, daily spend — our broader Cambodia visa cost guide for US travelers puts the visa line in context.

How to budget and pay for the family in one go

Because the cost is per traveler with no discounts, the smart move is to budget the whole family as a single line and pay it in a single transaction. You do not run four separate checkouts — you complete each traveler's application back-to-back in one session, and the family total is charged once to one card, billed in USD. That means no currency math, no risk of one child's application being left half-paid, and one set of approval PDFs landing in one inbox.

Set the family budget at the per-head all-in figure times the number of travelers, and you will be exactly right: $85 per person on a Tourist eVisa covers both the visa and the e-Arrival Card. For a family of four that is $340, for a family of five $425. Earmark that as a single fixed cost and you never have to revisit it — there is no rush tier to tempt you into spending more and no surprise add-on to plan for. To slot that fixed line into the bigger picture, our guide to a full Cambodia trip budget for US travelers shows where the visa sits next to flights, hotels, and daily spend.

One real budgeting trap is the passport, not the visa. Every child needs at least 6 months of validity on their US passport from your date of entry, and children's US passports run on a 5-year cycle — so a passport issued when your child was two is invalid by the time they are seven. A renewal is not a same-week fix and can add a real cost and a multi-week wait to the trip if you catch it late. For the full document picture for under-18s, including the consent-letter question for solo-parent travel, see our guide to the Cambodia eVisa documents US families need for minors.

Before you start the family session, make sure your card is cleared for international online payments — a declined card means nothing in the batch starts, and you do not want to restart a four-traveler session. Gather all the passports and photos first so the only thing left at checkout is the single payment that covers everyone at once.

Putting the family visa budget together

Pull it together and the family visa cost is the cleanest line on the whole trip. Every traveler is $80 USD for a Tourist eVisa, kids and adults alike, plus $5 USD each for the e-Arrival Card — $85 all-in per person, multiplied by the number of people in your group. A family of four is $340 USD, a family of five $425 USD, all approved in 3 business days and delivered as printable PDFs to one inbox, paid once at a single checkout.

Two reminders before you lock the budget. First, check every child's passport expiry today — children's US passports run on a 5-year cycle and need 6 months of validity from your entry date, and a late renewal can add cost and weeks you did not plan for. Second, remember Phnom Penh now flies through Techo International Airport (KTI), which replaced the old airport in September 2025, so each child's e-Arrival Card should reflect the airport you actually land at.

Next steps for US families: confirm each child needs a visa, set your budget at $85 all-in per traveler, then apply online for the whole family when every passport and photo is in hand. The per-traveler cost guide and the family application walkthrough are the best companion reads if you want the full picture before you pay.